Yeah, I like LAB too. Let no one think I don't. On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 12:34 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > Speaking as the guy who really likes linux as bootloader, and will > continue to use it for many platforms as I have for 6 years now, I have > really thought a lot about this change from Linux to OFW, and I'm good > with it. > > I still am not sure I'm sold on all the merits (we've seen here that > once you hit about 2 Ghz. CPUs, linux will boot another linux faster > than polling-I/O-based bootloaders will), but I think you do what you > have to do, and in this case OFW makes sense; Linux is just getting to > darn big for a 1M part. >
a *slow* 1M serial flash part... Very different game on a bigger machine.... > I think that we, as a group, should now go to the Linux kernel guys and > ask them to please, pretty please, put OFW parsing into the PC side of > the house -- it's in the PPC and Sun side, has been for years, no reason > not to have it in the PC side. Stefan and I have asked for this from > time to time for some years now, and always got the rejection; but now, > 10M OLPCs can't be wrong! I think we might get there this time. Time will tell. - Jim > > A truly open, sensible, easily parsed table format for PCs; no more > 4-character labels a la ACPI; what a concept! > > thanks > > ron -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@laptop.org http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel